Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-10 Thread Fiorenzo Cattaneo
for this. -- Fio Cattaneo Universal AC, can Entropy be reversed? -- "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER." -Original Message- From: time-nuts On Behalf Of John Moran, Scawby Design Sent: Monday, 8 February, 2021 09:37 To: time-nuts@lists.febo.com Subject: Re: [time-

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-09 Thread Detlef Schuecker via time-nuts
time-nuts" schrieb am 08.02.2021 23:59:07: > Von: joekok...@epios.eu > An: time-nuts@lists.febo.com > Datum: 09.02.2021 00:05 > Betreff: Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid > Gesendet von: "time-nuts" > > Dear all, > > it is quite an inter

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-08 Thread joekokker
Dear all, it is quite an interesting premise. I think one of the challenges is to even measure these small deviations in frequency. The time correlation can be achieved with GNSS but the actual determination of the zero-crossing might be the problem. I think the ZCD must be better than 100ns

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-08 Thread Mark Spencer
Years ago I recall reading accounts of efforts in the U.S. and perhaps Canada to track down the cause(s) of small but noticeable changes in the frequency of certain regional power grids that seemed to occur at more or less the same time each day. Mark Spencer m...@alignedsolutions.com 604

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-08 Thread John Moran, Scawby Design
That was some heavy-weight receptionist! :-) Thanks for the feedback. John > On 8 Feb 2021, at 17:58, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > John Moran, Scawby Design writes: > >> "If you happen to own something like a steel mill running electric >> >> furnaces or an aluminum refinery, so

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-08 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi, On 2021-02-08 18:37, John Moran, Scawby Design wrote: > On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 20:45:57 -0800 > Jim Lux said - > > > "If you happen to own something like a steel mill running electric > > furnaces or an aluminum refinery, so you can manipulate the load..." > > Sometime in the late '80s, my first

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
John Moran, Scawby Design writes: > "If you happen to own something like a steel mill running electric > > furnaces or an aluminum refinery, so you can manipulate the load..." > > Sometime in the late '80s, my first decent sized computer system came on line > [...] We had the same

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-08 Thread John Moran, Scawby Design
On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 20:45:57 -0800 Jim Lux said - "If you happen to own something like a steel mill running electric furnaces or an aluminum refinery, so you can manipulate the load..." Sometime in the late '80s, my first decent sized computer system came on line at a telecom factory in

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-08 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi, On 2021-02-08 12:31, Hal Murray wrote: > andy.g4...@gmail.com said: >> I can probably measure the grid frequency to a few micro Hz over a period >> of tens of seconds. So I make a continuous recording of this, averaged over >> say 10 second periods. Now take a 7kW load (the maximum

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-08 Thread Clint Jay
I'm not convinced they will be impressed by your scheme for ultra VLF signalling Andy but it'd make a nice Radcom article On Sun, 7 Feb 2021, 21:44 Andy Talbot, wrote: > The UK has a standalone frequency locked grid supply, nominal 50Hz, which > typically wanders +/- about 0.15Hz RMS over

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Hal Murray writes: > I'd expect an ADEV type pattern. For long tau, the wander in the system will > dominate. We have lots of long term data so should be able to plot that part > of the graph. I did that some years ago: The Nordic grid bottomed out around 1e-10, with a frequency

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-08 Thread Hal Murray
andy.g4...@gmail.com said: > I can probably measure the grid frequency to a few micro Hz over a period > of tens of seconds. So I make a continuous recording of this, averaged over > say 10 second periods. Now take a 7kW load (the maximum reasonably possible > on a domestic circuit) and switch

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Lux, Jim writes: > If you happen to own something like a steel mill running electric > furnaces or an aluminum refinery, so you can manipulate the load... More scary: Several independent studies have shown that even relatively moderate bot-nets in the hands of somebody who knows the

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Andy Talbot writes: > Not sure what the time constant of the grid control is, but for* small > signals* I doubt it can be faster than a few minutes. There are generally spaking two time constants, the physical and the human. The physical time constants are probably best understood as

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-07 Thread Lux, Jim
On 2/7/21 3:28 PM, Dana Whitlow wrote: Not daft at all, Andy. Closely related would be measurements of phase change between near the switched load and far away, over a stretch of a few system time constants. This would be more challenging, but perhaps doable. Dana K8YUM If you happen to

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-07 Thread Gerhard Hoffmann
Am 08.02.21 um 00:11 schrieb Philip Gladstone: As an amateur radio guy, I can't help wondering whether I could use this as a *very* low bit rate channel across the country. I have done navigation _for_ tv and phone sats, and the spread navigation signals are just 20 dB under the MPEG data

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-07 Thread Dana Whitlow
Not daft at all, Andy. Closely related would be measurements of phase change between near the switched load and far away, over a stretch of a few system time constants. This would be more challenging, but perhaps doable. Dana K8YUM On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 3:44 PM Andy Talbot wrote: > The UK

Re: [time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-07 Thread Philip Gladstone
As an amateur radio guy, I can't help wondering whether I could use this as a *very* low bit rate channel across the country. Philip On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 4:44 PM Andy Talbot wrote: > The UK has a standalone frequency locked grid supply, nominal 50Hz, which > typically wanders +/- about

[time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

2021-02-07 Thread Andy Talbot
The UK has a standalone frequency locked grid supply, nominal 50Hz, which typically wanders +/- about 0.15Hz RMS over several minutes , with occasional short-lived excursions out to 0.2 or 0.3Hz. Average number of cycles per period generally is normalised to 50Hz after a few days. The typical